General Chat

Yes your garden is really pretty Ann. I need to do some more cutting down but the bin is full until tomorrow and so is the large bucket we use for weeding so it wil have to wait.

Just run my car and moved it from across in front of the kitchen window onto the actual drive. Makes the front look better.

I have been watching Leonardo on Prime and the opening music has hints of Poldark in it. It was the first thing I noticed. Aiden Turner plays Leonardo.

Wonderful colour in your garden Ann. Been waiting for some pics of the garden. It looks a real treat.

washings on the line and I need to clean the window sills in the bedroom of small and tiny flies and suck up some spiders. Trouble with gardening here as if its nice the HW gets left to go and do the garden.

good morning all quite bright here and already 17 degrees. My bedding in the wash and I am showered and hair washed so better go and have breakfast.

Yes Ann it id good to see what works in the garden when trying to change it to make less work. I think probably in the end I will have one part gravelled over and just have tubs there. That will save a lot of work.

Morning All,

Misty moisty morning here a proper September day with fairy hammocks in the box hedge.

Nothing planned for today but I must check oh's scripts to see if they need reordering.

Hope you all had a good nights sleep or as much as you could manage.

It's good to try things isn't it AnnG. I find some plants are too big and don't have much flower for my small garden.

Mandy I can quite see what you mean about the other Scarecrows.........yours was far better, with much more work put into it! :-S It is a shame people keep stealing and spoiling things that people do to cheer everyone up. I wouldn't be surprised if more things disappear from the one here. I enjoyed the first Vera but didn't realise there would only be two. I think All Creatures Great and Small will be starting soon. OH says Patricia Hodge will be Mrs Pomfrey this time as Diana Rigg passed away. I like her and think she will be good playing the part!

No Mel they are not into football at all..

Just going to watch the new Vera ,they've only made two.

Ann I grew two different lots of wild flowers one was lovely poppies and cornflowers the other was pretty but got very tall and leggy I think they were meadow flowers I will probably grow the cornflowers but not the others

Its such a shame when people put their time and money into making these things and then someone goes and pinches them. Must be so disheartening to the makers.

My daisies arn't flowering yet either and the pink ones on the rockery bit are taller than they have been before. The mauve ones up the border are just showing signs of budding up.

Been up the border this afternoon and dug some of the irises out and just put them in where they were before as when I looked at the time it was 20 to 7pm. Came down and am sitting here with a nice cold G & T before soing the scones for tea with jam and clotted cream.

Oh has mowed the orchard and the back field today.

Mandy does Jake support a football team? and Lewis?

Oh it's been lovely and warm here we've had quire a chilled out day just relaxing in the garden, sat and looked st all the jobs we could be doing but they'll get done in the week .

Anng I lost my Michealmas daisies last year never came up at all, I had the purple and the pink,I remember taking a bunch in to the teacher when I was harvest festival day .

Ann I meant to say how lovely all the yarn bombing was what a lot of time it must have taken them as some were really big .
The Dereham Crafters that did our yarn bombing are now doing a snail trail , you have to find which shops have them in their windows their not having them round the town now as a lot of the things they have displaced have been stolen .

Just checked last year they were not out on 7 September last year but were out by 25th September (checking photos.

Afternoon All,

Quite hot here too so a strappy top has surfaced again and there was me thinking I wouldn't be needing one anymore this year!

They were the sort of guests you need then Vera! No trouble and bearing gifts! :-D I hope your OH's pain gets sorted out soon. OH had a hernia repaired a few years before he retired and he's convinced he has another coming the other side now.

Poor you Island, you don't moan on but carry on if it helps as you are in good company with all our aches and pains here! :-) It sounds as if the change of meds didn't help so I hope the clinic can come up with something to help you. That long sleep will have helped after the disturbed nights.

Mandy you are as bad as me then with photos! When I won that cup at the local show a few years ago, I thought I would avoid the group photo but the Council Chairman didn't give up and kept calling me over despite me tucking myself behind people standing around!! lol :-D :-D It sounds like the children loved it and got some nice things for their bags and the zip wire teddies was a good idea. The WHS voucher will be good to spend! :-D

You are getting plenty of blackberries Mel. The one's here over the back fence are all small and mostly seeds so not nice at all. I have lifted and moved the bearded iris rhizomes before and they do have a habit of creeping to where they want to be! Mine were forming a circle with a hole in the middle too. :-S

I went out and through the village past the farm where the airshow is yesterday. There were a few planes passing over including Spitfires and Dakotas but less than usual I thought. They do renactments there and an old boy had managed to upturn an old jeep into the ditch on the road to the village. He wasn't hurt and was just sitting next to it chatting to some people walking to the event. No way could they tow it out on the narrow road while there was a constant stream of traffic queuing to get in. They have had a Lancaster bomber there in the past, very impressive, but I think it was moved from Bruntingthorpe airfield and is not flyable at the moment.

OH had to go to a different match yesterday as the one he had chosen was cancelled due to covid. He said no end of small matches are being called off at the last minute because of covid, so he has to check right up to the time to set off. He said it's silly young men not being careful and spreading it. There was a capacity of 4,000 but only 60 spectators in total where he did eventually go.

AnnG you are doing well getting your garden sorted. Are you not growing a wild flower patch next year? Our 'dwarf' Michaelmas daisies I bought last year (already over 2 foot high!) haven't flowered yet and don't look as if they will for another week or two. I'm still waiting for the Cosmos to flower too. :-S

ERNIE has been kind to me, another £25 prize! :-)

Would you believe it is brilliant sun and 26 degrees. really hot.

O its 22 degrees here too.

Thanks for that Anng so its not too late to dig them up and move them back a bit as they have grwon towards the front of the border. I know I can cut the leaves back so they don't act as a sail in the wind. I shall only keep the bigest ryzomes and chuck the old ones away. I remember Monty moving his and they flowered lovely this year but could'nt remember what time of the year he did it.

Mel:

Bearded irises are one of the showiest flowers in the spring garden, and they are also one of the easiest to propagate and transplant—though you won't want to try it while a bearded iris is in bloom. Instead, the American Iris Society recommends that you lift, divide, and transplant any time in mid- to late summer after the foliage begins to decline following the spring bloom. Transplanting during this time, when the weather is relatively dry, minimizes the chances for fungal disease but still allows enough time for the rhizomes to established well before winter sets in.
Bearded Irises Grow from Rhizomes

Bearded irises grow from fleshy underground stems known as rhizomes, which produce the roots that draw nutrients and water into the plant as well as the shoots that will eventually form leaves and flower buds. Plants that grow from rhizomes can survive poor growing seasons because the rhizomes store starches and proteins. Rhizomes also enable the asexual propagation of plants: Cut off part of a rhizome, replant it, and you will soon have a plant identical to the parent.

Island you are entitled to moan, you have been poorly so much lately it would make anyone moan. hope the RA clinic can help you. Was the change in meds supposed to improve things? If so I would say they failed.

Mel it is 22 degrees here, I was out in the garden but came in as it was too hot.

I have finished clearing where the wild flowers were, no doubt they have left seeds and roots though so will come up next year. I have some allium bulbs I want to put in there and maybe some tulips. I also want to (a la Monty) dig up some clumps of forget me knots to put out the front.
I have also potted up a basket with pansies and two troughs also with pansies (actually violas).

Has anyone else got michaelmas daisies in the garden, I am sure mine are a lot later this year, I will have to check back.

Thanks Mel :-D
I've been having a read of the thread now and then so have an idea what everyone is up to..
Last Friday night through to Saturday, apart from a short spell of coughing and a cuppa and biscuit at 10ish, I slept for 15 hours :-0 Is that a record? I was so exhausted from two weeks of disturbed sleep.
Feeling much better but now have a snuffle and need to build my energy up.
I have a phone call app with the ra clinic in a couple of weeks so hope they will be able to offer me something better. I've never been 'under the weather' so much before as in the last 18 months when my meds were changed.
Sorry to moan. I will be back up to par soon.
We have sunshine so that should help :-D

Sunshines back and it hot hot hot. Been out and picked more blackberries from the orchard which oh spotted in the box hedge.

What a nice gift for winning the competition Mandy. The EHS voucher will come in very handy I should think.

Oh is mowing the orchard still so I am going to go and wash my hair now before lunch and the grand prix.

Safe journey to Frank and Ros today and I am sure they will both enjoy their break away.

Love to Island and I hope you are now feeling better. <3

Wonder what our Gill is up to today?

Morning all,

It seems you have our lovely sunshine then this morning Anng, drat...... Wehave grey sky and its a lot duller and overcast. The only good thing is its still dry as I left all my tools up the garden yeterday, my trug with hand tools is parked under my wheelbarrow.

O well its still good weather to get up the border and do a bit more. I am thinking of digging up the very knotted bearded Iris but ot sure if its the right time to do it. I have never moved any of them before and they are now too near the front f the boarder. I know Monty moved some last year and said only keep the biggest rooty things and discard the small ones. I tell a lie I did pot up some that were too near the edge some years ago and they are still in pots down by the shed. I was going to put them in the border behind the bungalow that has never been done and just grows weeds now.